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Dr Michael Pierse

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Dr Michael Pierse

Dr Michael Pierse

School of Arts, English and Languages

Dr Pierse has focussed on the neglected area of class in Irish Studies. His Writing Ireland’s Working Class (2011) focussed on the writing of working-class life in Dublin. His recent edited collection, A History of Irish Working-Class Writing (2017), has expanded on that research.

Pierse is also co-editor of Rethinking the Irish Diaspora: After the Gathering (February 2018), which expands his work on diaspora writers. He is also more generally interested in cultural production in contexts of marginalisation and disenfranchisement.

Contact info

  • m.pierse@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 5390

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

  • Twentieth and twenty-first century Irish writing (mainly drama and fiction)
  • British and Irish working-class writing
  • Community Theatre
  • Diaspora and migrant writing
  • Race/ethnicity in contemporary Irish theatre

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PhD Title Active in program: Doctor of Philosophy
   
PhD Title   Active in program: Doctor of Philosophy
   
PhD Title  Active in program: Doctor of Philosophy
   

 


Alumni: Where are they now

PhD Title Making Sense and Sound of Finglas
Country Ireland
Current Position  Tutor at Trinity College Dublin TAP programme and award-winning author of 2017 poetry collection, ‘Flight Paths over Finglas’
   

 

 


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